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Admiral Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, PC (14 October 1726 – 17 June 1813) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the Seven Years' War.
Charles Middleton 1st Lord Barham 1726-1813. He was born on 14 October 1726 at Leith, the second son of Robert Middleton, a customs collector in Linlithgowshire, and of Helen, daughter of Captain Charles Dundas and a cousin of the future Lord Melville.
Biography. A distinguished naval commander and administrator, a keen reformer and an Evangelical, connected with Wilberforce and Henry Dundas, Middleton was returned for Rochester on the Government interest.
Charles Middleton. (1726—1813) naval officer and administrator. Quick Reference. (1726–1813). First Baron Barham, British naval administrator, and politician active in the campaign to abolish slavery. Middleton entered the Royal Navy in 1741, passing his lieutenant's examination in 1745. He ...
The Oxford Companion to British History. Barham, Charles Middleton, 1st Lord (1726–1813). Middleton was a cousin of Henry Dundas, the future intimate of Pitt the Younger, treasurer of the navy and secretary at war.
Biography of Charles Middleton (Baron Barham of Teston). Middleton entered the Royal Navy in April 1741 as captain's servant to Samuel Mead. He was later transferred to the frigate Flamborough, where for four years he served successively as servant, midshipman, and master's mate.
Sir Charles Middleton Barham, 1st Baron (1726-1813) Letters and papers of Charles, Lord Barham ... 1758-1813 ; v.1 / edited by Sir John Knox Laughton. (Navy Records Society, vol. xxxii).
